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PREVIEWING OUR OPPONENTS: SEDGLEY PARK

PREVIEWING OUR OPPONENTS: SEDGLEY PARK

Rich Ashton6 Mar - 12:15

An insight into the northerners’ recent form, players to watch, historical clashes and more!

Year Founded: 1932

Nickname: Tigers

Ground: Park Lane (Capacity 2,000)

Current season: 10th (P20 W7 D1 L12 TB7 LB5 Pts 42)

Last season: Ninth (P26 W11 D1 L14 TB11 LB4 Pts 61)

Previous games Vs. Rams

Rams 40-22 Sedgley Park (November, 2024)

Rams 28-7 Sedgley Park (January, 2024)

Sedgley Park 20-41 Rams (September, 2023)

Recent Form: Varied but improving.

Tigers produced one of their best results of the season with a 25-22 victory at Blackheath last weekend, a result which followed a hard-fought 38-35 loss at Plymouth and a 28-20 home setback against Birmingham Moseley.

Another eye-catching success came 22-19 at Bishop’s Stortford, a 25-10 victory versus Leicester Lions coming following a poor start to 2025 when they went down 35-3 at Dings Crusaders.

Tigers enjoyed a terrific December with a 14-12 derby win against Sale FC, a cracking 37-37 draw at Darlington Mowden Park and a stunning 28-0 home triumph against Rosslyn Park.
Prior to that run Sedge had four straight defeats to Richmond (21-6), Rotherham Titans (35-30), Rams (41-20) and Blackheath (36-24).

A 41-26 home win against Plymouth Albion had ended a poor early run of five losses on the spin to Moseley (28-26), Stortford (27-12), Lions (29-23), Dings (20-11) and Sale (24-18) – Tigers having begun the season with a blistering 65-24 success against Esher.

Players to Watch:

Bob Birtwell – Ever-present this season, the second row reached 200 caps for Sedgley in their fine win at Blackheath last time out and has missed just one match last term and six in four campaign since Covid.

Two-time County Championship with Lancashire as well as a losing finalist in 2023 and an England Counties player on tours to Spain and Georgia.

Warren Seals – Fantastic fly-half played in the Premiership Cup for Wasps and enjoyed Championship experience with Yorkshire Carnegie ahead of a move to Darlington Mowden Park ahead of the 2017/18 campaign.

There he racked up points tallies of 178, 185 and then a remarkable 267 in the Covid-shortened season which saw him named in both the NCA and Rugby Paper Teams of the Season.

A severe injury ruled him out of the second half of the 21/22 campaign and all of the next, but a switch to Sedgley saw him bag 229 points before he sits fifth in the league rankings this term (141 – one try, 26 conversions, 28 penalties) despite missing five games through injury early-season.

Rhys Henderson – Prolific wing tops the league’s most lethal finishers with a superb 17 tries in 18 appearances, including a double at Blackheath last week.

Remarkably that made it five scores in the two games with Club this term, while Henderson also has doubles against Plymouth Albion, Rotherham Titans and Esher, along with a try at Old Bath Road earlier this term.

His efforts this term already surpass his tally of eight last season – joint-second for Sedge – but his overall record since joining ahead of the 2021/22 campaign is eye-catching with 69 tries in 87 games.

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